PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

To be associated with a growing organization that would give me

opportunities to put to practice my knowledge and further hone my skills.

To be work with a team that dynamically works towards growth of

organization and gains satisfaction thereof.

SKILLS & EXPERTISE:

Enterprise Applications (ERP, Extended ERP System) Business Intelligence

Applications Project Management Training Skills Great Team Player

Good Interpersonal Skills Implementation & Support Skills

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

* Exposure to different industry verticals in a span of 17 + years of ERP

Implementation, Support, Customization and

Project Management.

* Active Involvement in Quality Process design, implementation, and

continuous improvement.

* Design and Conduct in-house training of ERP Application and its usage.

* Excellent problem solving abilities.

* Exceptional aptitude for quick learning and implementation of new skills.

* Extensive experience in migrating MFG/Pro to higher versions.

* Extensive experience in migrating Progress to higher versions.

* Migration of Business Intelligence (Cognos) to higher versions.

* Knowledge of Java and Web technology.

* Integration of ERP Application with different applications.

* Strong experience in implementing and supporting Sales and Distribution,

Finance, Purchase, Inventory Module,

Manufacturing, Production & EDI modules.

* Strong Experience in Cognos Development and administration.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

eKSource Inc, Herndon, VA

From Apr-13 - till now

Role : Sr. ERP Manager - QAD Practice

Responsibilities:

. Working on QAD Implementation, Upgrade & Support project .

Watts Water Technologies, North Andover, MA

From Aug-12 - Mar-13

Role : QAD Consultant

Responsibilities:

. QAD EE Migration & Support.

. Development of custom browse.

. Analysis of new user requirements & documentation.

. Deployment of custom programs for user testing.

. Maintenance & administration security in mfg/pro.

InfoTargets LLC, USA. / Accenture, USA

Feb-12 - Aug-12

Role : Sr. Business Analyst @ Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

. As a COE Sr. Business Analyst involved in day to day production support

to the users at various facilities of Caterpillar all over the globe on

various modules of Mfg/Pro and various custom as well as standard

interfaces.

. Analysis of new user requirements and documentation as per CAT

standards.

. Co-ordination & Managing with offshore Development team.

. Deployment of custom programs for user testing.

. Process Documentation.

. Managing various development as well as server migration &

implementation projects, Co-coordinating with business process owners as

well as internal mfg/pro team.

Filtration Group Inc., Joliet

June-07 to Dec-11

Role : ERP Controller / Analyst

Responsibilities:

. As ERP Controller / Analyst, I lead and manage ERP Application (Mfg/Pro)

and Business Intelligence (Cognos) techno-functionally.

. As a controller / Analyst involved in daily support to users located all

across US, Canada & Europe on various areas of Mfg/Pro as well as

Progress.4gl and interfaces like QPS, TRAXI, OPTIO, QXTND inbound and

outbound etc.

. Business Intelligence (Cognos) Development and Administration.

. Maintenance & administration of security in Mfg/Pro and Cognos.

. Report customization by using Progress 4GL and testing them before

release.

. Creation and deployment of Custom Browsers for .NET Interface of

Mfg/Pro.

. Annually Budget data loading into Cognos.

. Migration of Mfg/Pro from eB2 to 2007.1 at all sites of FGI.

. Migration of Mfg/Pro 2007.1 to 2009.1.

. Migration of Progress from 9.0 to 10B.

. Design and Conduct in-house training of Mfg/Pro's .NET Client and new

features.

. Procedural documentation.

. Dump data from Mfg/Pro by writing quick progress queries for data

analysis.

. CIM/LOAD data by using CIM tool.

. Creation of dashboards for management by using Cognos Report Studio and

Analysis Studio.

. Maintenance of BI Server periodically.

. Annually do the Dump/Load of Mfg/Pro Data.

Satyam Computer Services, USA.

Aug-06 to June-07

Role : Mfg/Pro COE Support Analyst @ Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL

Responsibilities:

. As a COE Support Analyst involved in day to day production support to

the users at various facilities of Caterpillar all across US, UK &

Europe on various modules of Mfg/Pro i.e. S&D, Purchase, Production,

EDI, Manufacturing, Finance and various custom and standard interfaces.

. Analysis of user requirements and documentation as per SOX standards.

. Co-ordination with offshore Development team on new requirements.

. Testing of custom Mfg/Pro Program in various environments.

. Deployment of custom programs developed by off-shore team after through

testing.

. SOX Documentation and review.

. Handling support tickets for various modules of Mfg/Pro.

. Involved in Linux Server migration activities & Mfg/Pro Migration.

During this server migration I was involved in various scripts

modifications, testing of various interfaces, testing of vanilla Mfg/Pro

programs and customized Mfg/Pro programs.

Ignify Inc., USA.

Apr-06 to Aug-06

Role : ERP Application Consultant @ Asurion Inc., Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities:

. Studying the Business Processes.

. Exposure to Axapta Application and Usage.

. Requirement gathering, GAP Analysis.

. Conduct CRP.

. Identify the issues and conduct issue resolution workshop.

. Finalized core customization and report customization.

. Co-ordination with offshore Development team on customization.

. Made training materials and conduct training.

. User Security Setup in the application.

. Implementation @ all sites with the help of my team and client's team.

. Post implementation Support.

Capgemini Consulting Limited, Mumbai.

Oct-05 to Apr-06

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Visteon Corporation.

Responsibilities:

. Being a part of a matrix organization provides me different roles and

responsibilities depending upon the need of the moment.

. As a team lead by designation I am responsible for the people management

aspects for a team of senior resources. That includes their career

paths, utilization, half yearly appraisals and other related areas.

. Involved in daily production support to the users at various sites of

Visteon located globally.

. Enhancement in existing report programs for various modules like

finance, sales, purchase.

. Development of new extraction programs for extracting finance related

data in CSV format.

. Development of trigger programmer.

. Development of Audit Trail Report for customized application into

Mfg/Pro.

. Testing of new functionality to be implemented like various interfaces

where data gets transferred from Mfg/Pro to SAP or Mfg/Pro to third

party application.

. Deployment of extraction, trigger programs written for different modules

of Mfg/Pro.

. Management of support tickets on day to day basis.

. Involved in Unix Server migration activities; during this server

migration I was involved in script modification, testing various

interfaces, testing of vanilla Mfg/Pro programs and customized Mfg/Pro

programs.

. Doing project Audits for quality purpose.

ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.

May-05 to Oct-05

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ General Mills Limited, Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in daily support to the user on various modules of Mfg/Pro i.e.

Sales & Distribution, Purchase, Finance and customized applications into

Mfg/Pro.

. Enhancement in existing maintenance programs of customized applications.

. Development of new report programs for customized applications of

Mfg/Pro.

. Development of extraction programs to extract sales data from Mfg/Pro

into CSV format and upload into Oracle Sales Analyzer for MIS Reports

. Developed of trigger programs to put some validations.

. Deployment of newly modified and developed programs.

. Testing of customized programs.

ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.

Apr-05 to May-05

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Fosters India Limited, Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

Currently centralized database in FIL is having GL calendar as per Indian

statutory requirement (April-March). FIL is required to submit the

financial statement to the parent company. Foster's Australia which

maintains GL calendar of July-June. The project is to accomplish the

submission of the financial statements to the Foster's Australia by

maintaining a separate database - Foster's Australia Database with a GL

calendar as per Foster's Australia.

. As a Team leader, was involved in system study.

. Involved in System Design for GL Calendar Migration.

. Preparation of Design Document and Requirement Document as per SOX

Documentation format.

. Creation of new empty database from mfg empty database.

. Create GL Calendar as per Australian database.

. Dump data from existing Mfg/Pro database and load into newly created

database.

. Test various financial reports.

ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.

Mar-05 to Apr-05

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

The objective of report tracker is to keep log of transactions happened in

all finance customized modules. This will help DBA to generate log report

with the data which is stored in separate table.

. As a Team leader, was involved in system study.

. Involved in System Design for Report Tracker.

. Preparation of program specification document.

. Modification of existing customized programs of customized finance

module to incorporate the logic which will keep log of transactions done

by the users in to separate table.

. Testing of all customized programs with new logic.

ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.

Jan-05 to Mar-05

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

The objective of eTDS module was to assists accounts departments at all

corporate offices to compute and track TDS payments to government. With the

help of this module, the user can file electronics TDS returns. The module

was developed with flexibility of GTM.

. As a Team leader, was involved in system study.

. Understanding user requirement and prepare User Requirement document

. Involved in System Design for eTDS Module.

. Preparation of System Requirement document

. Preparation of Design Document.

. Preparation of program specification document.

. Development of existing form 16 and form 26 programs in such a way that

when you run this report it will give output on the screen at the same

time it will extract the data into CSV format which will be later on

validated through validation software given by Govt. of India.

. Development of new report program which will give you complete data for.

. Testing of all programs.

. Training to the user.

. Deployment and handover to the user.

ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.

Jul-04 to Jan-05

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

The objective of Taxation and Income Tax Returns module was to enable HLL-

Taxation department to generate tax audit and income tax forms on behalf of

business it caters to. In total there are 43 such forms based on the

multiple specific logics given by Indian government to ascertain range of

expenses incurred by units.

. Understanding user requirement and prepare User Requirement document

. Involved in System Design for Taxation and IT Return Module.

. Preparation of System Requirement document

. Preparation of Design Document.

. Preparation of program specification document

. Development of 43 programs which are nothing but those taxation forms

which will give data in csv format which will later validated through

validation software given by Govt. of India.

. Testing of all programs.

. Training to the user.

. Deployment and handover to the user.

ITTI Pvt. Limited, Mumbai.

June-04 to Jul-04

Role : Senior ERP Consultant @ Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

The AGCE module was designed as mechanism for monthly financial reporting

which computes Brand-Category wise Total Capital Expenditure. The scope of

the project was to enable 19 Mfg/Pro units to generate AGEC report on a

monthly basis.

. Involved in System Design for AGCE.

. Preparation of System Requirement document

. Preparation of Design Document.

. Database creation, Master Upload, Menu Creation.

. Implementation of AGCE Module.

. Training to the user.

. Deployment and handover to the user.

Datapro InfoWorld Limited, Mumbai.

Oct-02 to Dec-03

Role : Business Development Executive

Jobpartners Limited, London.

Aug-00 to Aug-02

Role : Senior Systems Analyst Programmer.

Responsibilities:

Jobpartners Activerecruiter provides an end-to-end solution for recruitment

that provides the functionality and process for large corporate to recruit

successfully. Active recruiter is custom CRM Application for HR where

entire HR process has been automated. Activerecruiter is multi-lingual

application.

. Involved in System Design.

. Preparation of Design Document.

. Development of programs by using JSP, HTML & Java.

. Documentation.

. Testing of application.

. Deployment of application.

Godrej Soaps Limited, Mumbai.

Jul-98 to Aug-00

Role : Senior Information Systems Officer

Responsibilities:

. As an IS Officer involved in daily support to the user on various

modules of Mfg/Pro i.e. Sales & Distribution, Purchase, Finance and

customized applications into Mfg/Pro.

. Receiving periodic backups and restoring them to the server.

. Conduct training for users at various levels on various topics of

Mfg/Pro.

. Installation of new customized programs at various locations.

. Migration of Progress from ver. 5 to 6.

. Migration of Progress from ver. 6 to 7.

. Migration of Mfg/Pro from ver. 7.3e to 8.

. Report Customization by using Progress 4GL.

. Progress DBA Activities.

. User Security maintenance and administration in Mfg/Pro.

. Periodic Systems Audit at various locations.

. CIM/LOAD Data using progress and Mf/Pro.

. Periodically do dump/load by using Progress.

. Involve in ISO Audits.

Godrej Soaps Limited, Mumbai.

Jul-98 to Nov-98

Role : Senior Information Systems Officer

Responsibilities:

The objective of the system is to capture secondary sales carried out from

distributors to retailers taking place all over India. The module captured

primary sales, closing stocks at CFA's and calculation of Goods in Transit.

The secondary sales were derived from the data captured and extracted to be

sent to Branches. The branches extract the data and send it to HO for

consolidation.

. Study scope of the project.

. Preparation of system requirement Document.

. Preparation of Design Document.

. Database Preparation.

. Master setup, Menu Setup.

. Testing of customized application.

. Documentation as per ISO Quality Standard.

. Preparation of user guide.

. Roll out at various locations.

. Training to the users.

. Post implementation support

Godrej Soaps Limited, Mumbai.

Feb-97 to Jun-98

Role : Senior Information Systems Officer

Responsibilities:

Implementation includes understanding ERP concepts, Implementation

methodology, exposure to Mfg/pro package, studying the business processes,

mapping functionality on to the Mfg/Pro package under guidance of Author

Anderson Consultancy.

. Implementation includes understanding ERP Concepts, Implementation

methodology.

. Identify the core users from Godrej Group of companies

. Study of key business events of all groups of companies relating to the

process of distribution, conducted Conference Room piloting.

. Identified the issues & conducted an issue resolution workshop

. Map the key business events in Mfg/Pro.

. Finalized the core customization & report customization in Mfg/Pro.

. Confirmed the design with the users.

. Selected two pilot sites for the initial implementation.

. Documentation as per quality standards.

. User Training.

. Database preparation for rollouts.

. Implementation at various sites all over India.

. Conducting user sessions, for better understanding of system.

. Customization of Sales and Financial reports.

. Post implementation support on Mfg/Pro and Progress 4GL.

Datapro InfoWorld Limited, Mumbai.

May-96 to Jan-97

Role : Marketing Executive

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages & Java, C, C++, Ms-Office, PowerBuilder, Magic

Software

Tools/Packages

Database Progress 4GL, Oracle 8i, SQL

HTML, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, XML

Internet tools &

Technologies

Operating Windows 98/2000/2003/XP/7, Hp-Unix, Unix

Systems

Domain Mfg/Pro, Cognos 8

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Certification in Java Programming (2000) - Datapro InfoWorld Ltd.

Professional Diploma in Software Engineering (1997) - Datapro InfoWorld

Ltd. (Equivalent to Associate Degree)

Diploma in Industrial Electronics (1995) - University of Mumbai

(Equivalent to Bachelors Degree)

PERSONAL DETAILS:

. Date of Birth : 27th May 1976

. Gender : Male

. Marital Status : Married

. Languages Known : English, Hindi, Marathi

. Professional Hobbies : Web Research, Skill Up-gradation and

Professional Networking

REFERENCES:

1. Mr. Bhushan Lakhe - +1-630-***-****

2. Mr. Madhav Apte - +1-708-***-****

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